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Patricia Ferguson trained in nursing and midwifery, and her first book, Family Myths and Legends, won the Betty Trask, David Higham and Somerset Maugham awards. It So Happens and Peripheral Vision were both longlisted for the Orange Prize.

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Her most recent books, The Midwife’s Daughter and Aren’t We Sisters? are published by Penguin. Patricia Ferguson lives in Bristol.

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